The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-08 00:00:00

COTJAT CIRCULA.It -_____,....____ WINDSOR, SUNDAY. —The Queen held a Privy Council at trio o'clock yesterday afternoon at the Castle. It was :a ttended by the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, oreign, and Colonial Departments, and the President of the India Board. At the Council Parliament was ordered to be Roth prorogu e d f rom Thursday next, the 11th inst. The , Wm. Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Wait- I V, the Earl of Uxbridge was the Lord in Waiting, Sir Ro be:rt Otway the Groom in Waiting, and the Hon. Colonel Ca- Wendish (Clerk Marshal) the Equerry in Waiting. The Marquis of Lansdowne came to attend the Council from Bo wood -park, the Lord Chancellor from Copse-hill, Lord John Russell from Woburn Abbey, Lord Glenelg from town, Sir John Hobhouse from Erlestoke-park. x ., T he Queen rode out at four o'clock, accompanied by her _iolyhaleHnigo Royal l ess the Duchess of Kent and a numerous suite. dinner party of yesterday evening included the f.3.l°,win,g:---Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady a...s‘'olpley, Lady Mary Stoprord, Hon. Miss Paget, Hon. eiMt s• Lister.. Lord Uxbridge, the Lord Chancellor, Viscount mera the, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, RiorbeJrothn Cam Hobhouse' Lord Gl ene l g , M r . B at h urst, Si r Altirray,C)t-waY' Hon. Colonel Cavendish, and the Hon. C. A. ceTolar4itawstnorninrr the Queen attended divine service at St. Chapel. The service was by Boyce in C, , and the TPanses and creed King's in C. The Rev. C. W..Kilvett e iz: tin ted the service, and the Rev. W. Canning and the th e v * Mr- Proby cfficiated at the altar, the latter preached , rhe s . er , .4trtznrnf,rom the 16th chap. Proverbs, part of the 6th verse. Positt. ,- " Come unto me all ye that labour," a fine com %if C il b y Mr. G. J. Elvey, Mus. Bac., the tenor solo of rut:settwits effectively given by Mr. Harris. Her Royal High. and s'illet Duchess of Kent and the whole of the Royal visitors ,„. e were pres ent . v . v ening will be n o ear l s t i on i n the Royal dinner party this er e Her 14 • With h ' aiesty, attended by her suite, honoured the company bands her presence on the grand parterre this afternoon. The Guards r the Royal Horse Guards (blue) and Scots Fusilier aki lini w er ee in attendance. The promenade was fashionable °us. tP st r . Majesty's private band perform every evening at the live e, and frequently the band of one of the regiments sta• a d here perform during dinner. d ay : TI at M e ar. quis of Cl anr i car d e transacted business on Satur. th Foreig n D epartment. ' da, at The uar termaster- Gener a l t ransacted business on Satur.. te Horse Guards do r h,if -.u ssian, Turkish; Fren c h, an d Hanoverian Ambapsa tbenatt.ransphacted business on Saturday at the Foreign Depart uw- , nt S enfft transacted business at the Foreign office on xtVota,frday. William Turner, Esq., her Majesty ' s Minister a t transacted business on Friday at the Foreign Office. te PorteLheorsdvrere f orwa rded on Saturday from Downing str„t_sf. Melbourne at Windsor. , . .... tada:Ptches, dated the 16th of July, were received on Sa - Cov e ; la De, from Major. General Napier, the t0_21"14 of the Cape of Good Hope. be„"Patehes were forwarded on Saturday from the Foreign Vi4,,:Thent !or the British Ministers resident at the Courts of tie . Berlin, Switzerland, and Rome. We t ., e aPttrebes for Sir A. Woodford, Governor of Gibraltar, I) suit off from the Colonial Office on Saturday evening. a t t h re: patch e Colo loneisaifrom New South Wales were received yesterday Office. PAR ll _ --.IONAIIijt—INTELLIGENCE. Colo 1 ARRIVALS. in 0 " Scott in Piccadilly ; the Hon. Charles Greville ja Rae°"PA-street, Hanover-sluare ; Mr. Henry Labouchere kileavenlitton-place ; Mrs. Thompson in Old Burlington; Mr. r, ...11 Chelsea Hospital ; Mr. Hope in Man-field-street; ~,_ ,vharles Hospital; in Piccadilly ; Mr. Baring, in 11;4:ries-street, B erkeley -square ; the Earl and Countess of' 4liop r l P ha rnP in P ortman -square ; Lady Hulse in Piccadilly ; ~" Clifford from Leamington Spa ; W. Tate, Esq., and N 'eholls Tate, at the Berners Hotel, from Brighton; J. b"kholl p Z4uewai 3 ' •-•sq., Mrs. Nicholls, and family, at ditto, from f Ik•" ° Y; Mrs Gordon and family, at ditto, from the Isle it " ight; Theodore Gordon, Esq., Mrs. Gordon, and J . , St ditto, from the Indies; the Ilt-v. J. itinmer, M f r s. l 0 wrier, and family, at ditto, from the Continent; C. Stan itl„'.,El, at ditto, from the Isle of Wight; Archdeacon rtih'", -e cl.'m Lindsay,and family, at ditto, from Kildare ; ,' -Nev. J ' . rHs.aythorn,and Mrs. and Miss Haythorn, at ditto, °l b Hants. DEPARTURES. ) 1f; The Countess Potaett and Miss Dormer on a tour; the V' s ses Tilney Long and Miss Long Wellesley for Saxmund- Colonel a te ; Mr. are,,iner for Combe Lodge, Vlr m Airs We:oster on a tour ; Mr. Frank in Sta S n u d r i r s e h y On a tour; /15r• Pulte.liey for Newton Park, in Hampshire ; Mr. William 7 Whitbread for Southill P ark , .in Bedfordshire ; Mr. I,.er for gtuckerid g e House, in Devo ß n o s c h k ir s e , ; C il h l i r c . he H s e te n r ry ; C tiee i fer F e l ham Hall, near Bognor volona. and Mrs. Lemon for Brighton ; Mr. St. George iL lt qer for Susse x • Mr. Grenfell for Tap low Gou --vlltshire ; th e Ho House, . in 11 ' Phili p Bouverie for Cricklade, in Mrs. Mrs a f nd M i rs. Du ffi eld for Ramsgate; Mount Zion, Tunbridge Wells ; 1, Kiti,f , for Pe'tweortr Su h ss u e u x u • Mrs. and Miss Bethel! for eelrie3l House Wimbor'n DorsAshire ; Mr. H. Elwes for Pleee:',„et He ' ll, in Gloucestershire ; Mr. Harford for- Down Pigoitritt Ilerkshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Beadon en a tour ; Mrs. f rotu .I,er Abingdon Hall, Cambridge; Sir George Armytarogme, ditto' Liple Berners Hotel, for Oxford; Mrs. Franks, f ,le Doncasterßellamy, from ditto,.for Doncas- C '• bobree Es and Mrs. Dobree, from ditto, for the ontinent. ' I.' UNIVERSITY---- INTEL LIGENC.E. tilt°l,4ollD, OCT. 6.—The Bishop of Worcester has presented ae.,„ R ev, ` V . A. Prism . ), of Worcester College, to the Vicar- IC cif Snitterfield, Warwickshire ; and the Rev. Donald Ca- Iferie, late Fellow of Wadham College, to the Rectory of S t. . tlowen's and St. Alban's, Worcester. There is a Fellowship 1103_%aeant on the Williamson or Port Foundation, of Braxeir lat ; College. Members of this University may be candl ter: and are are natives of the city or count) palatine of Ches. I ..ant - rh " of kindred of John Williamson, formerly Rector of g ave e r i - :,, II IY, or of John Port, Sergeant -at- Law, and who of el e - ; ; " eeen matriculated more than eight years. The day 84 irtp ;'" is not yet fixed, but will take place early in the en- D' a ; tr il t• gills ednesday next , the 10th inst., Michaelmas term be '441.1,e/I'B4h there will e a congregation holden for conferring tOl C, t5 4 &e• 10v,i--41°°E. OCT. 6 --There will be congregations on the netuet, 1 , 1 ,g dass of the ensuing Michaelmas term : Wednesday, , `,'. at te n ; `he Oct 17 , at eleven ; Wednesday, e esd av 4 ~,,at eleven ; Wedne Y s ' clay, Nov. 14, at eleven; Wed 4titt Nov. 28, at elev Wednesday, Dec. 12, at eleven ; R eh ~• 16 (end of ter m , at ten. el ll3 er O t P le lPs M.A Mathematical Lecturer of Sidney f 4ti o 3e n 3 p - el ° , ll ege • i ' n this .U ' rlis•ersity, has been elected a Faun .1%),13 4 ,- . le s ? of that Society ; and William Fowler K_in_gs r: - hop ' alathernatical Lecturer, on the foundation of M ------........ Ititt, 'lt oy a l - : -. 7 -- , --- a rq i Castle Highness the Duke of Sussex . arrived at h. bo ehe , b erham, on Tuesday last, on a visit to the Duke *lirie sa , 83 of Cleveland. from Newstead Abbey. Th. ,l- 4"°MPanied by Lord John Churchill. is Royal %rm.` "like r Richmond 'd by Lady p -.1 G - ot , accompanied ( - Nobe l ,. `Plee Lennox, has returned to Gordon Castle, 1n rv'etrorn a visit to Lord and Lady Saltoun, at Ness ,th 2 !less. NI, e - Duel th ehus, N rl le Ss of Bedford left the Donne of Rothie -4 ti a.Y, to • `'.' i ; ett Thursday, and passed through London Th e i. ,d o .o the Duke of Bedford at Brighton. toiftilanzioa.c.raX„eellencies the Marquis and Marchioness . %, h ges 414 f o ur - and suite left St. James's-square, in three ear s, e re b Yesterda Yth • er Ma; est y morning at ten o'clock for i N n ir g o t o o lw c i o c n h : t a. eir t s _!, Y !steamer Firebrand was i Cr r c n a bo,l_,eiiencies to Sheerness, where th u e u y 'a w it ere to em end s vhi e g .ct her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, t he Hon. Capt. a a ,,s , ie . r h er A pls in readiness to convey them Cronstadt, t ikl, w ,9 l initaeactsty's steamer Lightning has preceded t them, t t4eelleoei_a_tely upon the arrival of, the urg . frigate convey tou r Seaford = and suite up to St. Pctersb h 'our. L I) has returned to Audley-square, from k l l 4 1 b ui , s te _„.. s„ , sanY, Admiral Farquhar, Colonel White,. t", Nit,;44teiot...ter.w.tlon l' k q/li ,e b h " ‘,umpany'sple..e. Saturday morning by the General kor a • -,--,EERR ir r Rainbow, fur Antwerp. ° ft . ,. 14 th e ults.r.--.This Noble sufferer still td,„. same hopeless condition.— Worcester Guardian fr o 4, e 1 - 0 , „„. . 4 tour n . "ingitam Baring has returned to town, tioul R oths h. Continent. IVI r r " the ' eon 1 ,, c Idisltl a dinner party at Gunnersbury : . "U rSday AI hp L t zeell 44tio„u4rtibar,i e"oY Count Pozzo di Borgo w . ill leave ,„„'s week ; o use the latter end of this, or early in tbe en k l'l l A " e t' Paris • a - .I.u st • ' to Cll oa 8. No Count Zieh arrived at the Clarendon t'i111; 41c, CurdaY, from a visit to the Earl of Wilton, at Hea- W aneashire. lty,,NW i„ 4,1,, hi.tia,,, °d-.11 HOUSE, I toTHEturAm.—.The Earl 'tek 8 -.aught " th Ld A will be married to 1" "zi e ow We'dneesdayamyorninonge: at iseount 13 14'tle Mart yr, ° Y le is now entertaining a select party 111 Aid 1:1 in the county Cork. °lroarlalorttnirrign.hersli _int.ends to leave Harley-street to p ,•ord b' for Paris. etli,h. torrtiont, " has arrived L„ l i re ' M.r., arrived at Scone Palace, h s t, 4, and L ItiaStrbetinitinearty are entertaining a distin tlireellbilo,l3tY at to tqoore(lteaPatottheTpuearnrk.aoyd P th a e rk, B• Ilinasloe. hiss Grace the Hon a . Mrs. Tren re among /lion %14tnrld, Lady Saville- Maryborouah arrived in Ac°4l fi r vaY , from Dover. ' , 4 ,. io, Y, th e ovvard de Walden. will leave Welbeck r st ) ,: t o , to seat of the Duke of Portland, to-day or to-mor e Ater It :4. His Excellency intends to return to Portugal 14,ildle of the next month. , enerll QO. -‘ - . . , „ 1 3a „y' s pa c,:et, yl44Qirve, ..,t—irri INavigatio„ L.on 1 -J house h itt from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 104 CORN -LAW FALLACIES, WITH THE ANSWERS (Continued from The San of Wednesday.) " T. F." is fighting against windmills. All the advocates of a free trade in corn, from Mr. Ricardo down wards, allow that there should be a duty on the importation of corn equivalent to the burdens exclusively borne by agricul ture. Neither is it true that there are duties on manufactures to the amount he states ; the highest is that on silk, amounting to thirty per cent. The duties on most manufactures are trifling. .._There is no use in discussi ng w h at no one contro. yints.—lrorning Chronicle, Oct. 4, 1838. ANSWER.—Tie man calling himself a political economist, who at this time of day maintains that any possible excess of taxation inflicted by the landowners on themselves, could make it within the limits of manly sense, decency, orjustice, that they should therefore recover the difference by a tax which causes a pure loss of fifty times the amount to the rest of the community,—holds up the name of a useful science to contempt, and ranks himself in one of .' classes proverbially least qualified for the direction of other men's affairs if they can hinder it. If the landowner should say to the manufacturer, " I find I have overcharged myself half-a-crown in the account between us, and therefore I will take the key of your strong box, the shoes off your horse's feet, or the pin out of the fly-wheel of your manufactory, and sell it for old iron to pay myself the difference ;" this would be an example of the plan proposed and acted on. But of such stuff are the managers of the world made. Let us hope the working classes are going to freshen the breed. The " higher orders" have bred in-and-in, till they are not able to shut their mouths to keep their teeth from being stolen. But the assertion made is utterly without foundation. Which of " the advocates of a free trade in corn," chooses to lie under the stigma imputed ? It is time that every man who ever risked the name, should answer "yes" or " no" to this question. C two 92 —The indissoluble connexion between the prolongation of the existence of the agricultural interest, and mercantile prosperity, involves a balancing of first principles too intricate for the judgment of our opponents to receive. —Hull Packet, 28th September, 1838. A.—h does indeed. For " Pgricultural interest," read " dishonest agricultural interest." Why cannot the agri cultural interest live without plundering, like other people? But there is a worse rod in pickle for the plunderers than has ever come yet ; and that Kill be, when the aoTicultu rists themselves, as is not far off, discover that they are losers by the fraud. 93.—Can Hull flourish, if the farmers and gentry of the Riding are ruined ?-7d. A. Can Hull flourish, if the farmers and gentry of the 'tiding do not rob ?" should have been the question put. Who are these " gentry" who must be ruined if they do not rob? and why does not Mr. MCMANUS march against them, as against any lesser culprits ? 94.—Annihilation to home agriculture does not deserve a ;hcught, I'ecause, say our blind antagonists, " Hull derives ittle benefir frnn the agriculturists."—ld. A.—Nobody wants to annihilate home agriculture, but the imposthumatous part of it, which supports itself by drawing fifty times the amount from the nerves and mar row of honest neighbours. A pleasant object, truly, for which the merchants and seamen of Hull should see their honest trade stopped at the Custom-house. 95. —Ours is not the "contracted, " but the enlarged po licy that realizes the interests of all classes, and finds in the Co7n-l-ws a happy medium, calculated to prolong that pros perity which has blessed the country during their existence, Id. ged fools the people of Hull must be, if they shut up shop fer this. Why should not they as well re alize the interests of all classes by laying a tax on home grown corn, and find it a happy medium ? 96.---" Live and let live," is a patriotic and Christian motto, and while we have a pen to wield, the columns of the Hull Packet shall expose the insanity of sacrificing any portion of the community, as the sure earnest of impending national de struction.—ld. comes it that the agricultural interest can only " live" by robbery ? What sort of a " portion of the community" is it, which can only exist by being kept fifty times over by the others? Why do not the manufacturers .and commercial people set up the plea, that they can only "live" by taxing home-grown corn, and try what the cry of " Live and let live" will do towards satisfying their opponents ? The men who cry " Live and let live," have got their hand into our pockets, and show no sign of meaning to take it out. 97.—Capital is ours, and with it the people can command corn from all lands.—ld. A.—That is, when the home enemy will let them. We need no Bonaparte to thin the docks with Milan and Ber lin decrees. We have got him at home, in the shape of a landed aristocracy. 98. But money cannot remain with us if we are to traffic with it for bread, and famine would be of frequent occur.. rence.—ld. A.—How is it to remain with you, if you traffic with it for hemp ? Why does not the Hull Packet shut up the port ? He may depend on it there is nothing but mis chief going on till he does. 99.—T0 send capital out of the coun t ry to b e emp l oyed against our manufactures, is to swall ow u p t h ousan d s of the indust r ious classes of society, and rip up the bowels of the empire. lc/- A.—What does the writer mean, by "sending capital out of the country to be employed against our manufac tures?" He has passed a law to prohibit your manufactures being exchanged. He has clapped a stopper on you, from the merchant to the cabin-boy ; you are all laid fast, like whalers in the ice, looking at one another for his pleasure. In sober sadness, what long enduring ears mankind were born with, that in a town which lifts by commerce, men will shut up their counting-houses and see their children go a•begging, for such trivial talk as this. 100.—Whether Mr. JOSEPH STURGE and his coadjutors are to be enriched at the expense of the people of England, is the question.—ld. A.—Whether the landowners and their coadjutors are to be enriched at the expense of the people of England, is the question. Mr. JOSEPH STURGE is an honest trader, and an boniest man. He keeps his hands from picking and stealing, which is more than the others do. Wt.—Beggar the agricultural interest, and throw the Church on it exclusive!) for support, by repealing the Corn laws, and the decay of the Establishment must follow. All who are resolved to maintain a Church Establishment are thus enrolled as the supporters of the Corn-laws. A.—To this, then, it comes at last. Like other mis chiefs, it resolves itself into the Church Establishment. Like Spain and Portugal, we are to be poor and beggarly, and submit to be thrust down in the scale of nations, because we have a priesthood. There are those will thank the Packet for his demonstration. 'Thank God, we have got the " greatest enormity in Europe" pitted agairbt the trade and commerce of the country ; which is something. 102. We wish our antagonists would substitute original thoughts for cant, and dip occasionally into the book of com mon sense, rather than submit their upper stories to inebria tion, by quaffing draughts from the poisoned chalice of politi cal economists, who, as far as all sound principles are con cerned, are up to the chin in " the gall of bitterness."—ld. A.—What more is to be said ? It is agreed. There is no doubt that the political economists have been blunderers par excellence, and ought not to he trusted a step further than they show cause. But it is an awful thing to be at war with the efforts of human reason on any subject, and be given over to the belief that nobody has " sound prin ciples" out of our own little den of tYeves. CORN LAWS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--I have observed with much satisfeetibre and good hope of ultimate success, the ttigbrous discussion, and search. ing exposure yon have brought fo bear on the all.importar subject of the Corn-laws, in your Liberal Paper. It my purpose to enter at any length on this vital and extensive subject, which at present very deservedly occupies so large a share of public attention, clearly manifesting its paramount importance in their estimation, but merely to make a few re marks on some points, which, if they have not been overlooked in the controversy, have escaped my notice. To get at the truth, and to obtain just and correct views on the subject, which has been purposely enveloped in mystery, ought to be the aim of all. Truth is a mighty weapon, even in weak hands and those who h ave h er on t h e i r side, so far from shunning' dis th cussions, or dre a di ng t h e li g h t, w ill court inquiry ; and nothing can be mere un reasona bl e t h an to refuse or evade a strict in tvreesat. g u a n t o u d n v o e f r s t a h r e y wi matter. tilas s u m A e s d i t contempt,is, than much t u answer easier arguments with reason, w h en t h ese are well founded, the abet tors of this i n d e f ens ibl e sc h eme of taxation, have lost their way throu g h wea k ness, an d b ecome revilers rather than rea sorters. But this momentous su bj ect has awakened the atten tion and active in qu i r i es o f t h e community, so completely, it cannot now b e s l urre d over or much longer postponed, that to t o s with out the risk of s h a ki ng soc i ety to its foundation. It would appal the stoutest heart to contemplate the frightful conse quences of a crop deficient to any considerable extent, under our present Cor n -l aw d espot i sm. A people may be kept long inignorance, and consequently submissive to the most unjust hardships ; b u t once l et i n the light on them, and they cannot be brought back again to the same ignorance and quiescent submission. No one who has his senses about him, can doubt that a spirit of inquiry on this interesting subject, is now fairly abroad ; stim u l a t e d, as i t i s lik ely tube, by the probable high pricey of bread during the ensuing spring and summer, which impera tively calls for the prudent anticipation of the Government and Legislature, to look the impending evil fairly in the face, to meet it in time, lest th e gat h er i ng storm should burst sud denly on our heads. If the present crop, as seems generally expected, should turn out only a little short of an average produce, no fitter time for dispassionately considering the matter can occur. If we wait for the calamity of real deficiency, against which there is no security, the angry feelings of the multitude, inflamed under the miseries of dear bread, would at once sweep away the Corn- laws with the violence of whirlwind ; and under such circumstances of general and wild excitement, who can foresee where the consequences might end. Must then the peace of the country be hazarded, that the affluence of landlords and beneficed clergy should be maintained in times of common calamity, while the industrious and poorer classes are suffering the pressure of want ? It is to be regretted that the interest of these two classes alone are at variance with that of all the rest of the community, more especially the last, the appointed teachers and comforters of the distressed. It is also to be suspected, the consideration of stipend, which unluckily increases with the increase of dearth, has so identified the clergy with the landed interest, that an ex-Moderator of the General Assembly, at a public meeting, boasted that of the Established Clergy of Scotland, not more than half-a-dozen belonged to the Liberals ; that is, to the cause of the people. This is an exaggeration ; but there can be no doubt of their zealous partizanship, and active agency in the Tory cause. Before adverting more directly to some points in this con troversy, it may be as well to state, that I have been for many years, both before and since the present Corn-laws, a cultiva tor of the soil, having firmed a property of my own, uniting the character of landlord and tenant ; and am old enough to remember the severe dearth, almost amounting to famine, in the years 1799 and 1800, when the loaf was Is. Bd., oatmeal, 2s. 6d. the peck, and potatoes a guinea and half a boil. In 1816 or 1817. scarcity w as a l so cons id erable, although nothing equal to the f ormer p er i o d ; i t h owever excited a meal mob in the district where I then lived, and as a Justice of the Peace, along with another Magistrate, I was called out to put it doe n. Matters went to such a length, that we were obliged to get the assi s t ance o f a d etac h ment of yeomanry. The crowd pressed s o h ar d upon us, that when rye were considering the necessity of reading the Riot Act, we addressed a ring leader on the danger of his conduct; he immediately replied, it was a matter of no importance whether ha died from starva tion or by the sabres of the cavalry. (Lord Chatham once said he could eas ily p ut d own any i nsurrection but the insur rection of the belly). So circumstanced, I have been led to reflect much on the subject in all its bearings; and have ar rived at the conclusion of its pernicious influence on the comforts and contentment of the great mass of the people; who, under tile pressure of the high price of bread, occasioned, as they now perfectly understand, by our our Corn-law regulations, grumble at their own hard lot, and grudge the east and affluence of the lords of the soil, arising out of such unfair dealing by them. The advocates of the system ask triumphantly, would you make this country de pendent for daily food or, foreign States, who, in the event of war, might choose to starve us? The answer has been given by stating, not a hypothetical case, depending on a train of reasoning, but a well-established fact, that of Holland, a country of narrow extent, but densely peopled, who find it ad vantageous to occupy a. considerable breadth of their soil in every produce, but by throwing open their ports to all the world for the importation of grain, have not only never suf fered want themselves, but have been often able, from their accumulated stores, to supply the wants of others ; and no nation has been oftener involved in war. But were there anything in this argument, are we to submit year after year to severe privations for the possible contingency of being a little put about the first year of a war ? It has also been objected, that the repeal would throw our inferior lands out of cultivation. This is a visionary evil. If soils were naturally unfertile, or rendered so from being too long under the plough, so as not to repay, the cost of cultivation, what w ou ld a j u di c i ous , pract i ca l f armer do, if left to himself and not a tenant-at-will—the bane of all good farmings ? He would adopt the alternate system of husbandry; that is, h e would lay it off in grabs, till it recovered its injudicious treat ment. Without either compulsion or controul I practised this system of alternate husbandry for twenty years on good land, and found it the most beneficial that could be adopted. These objectors surely don't mean to say that lands laid off to grass, rearing and feeding stock, are unproductive. On the contrary, they are like money at compound interest, an accu mulating treasure; and when again ploughed up will make a grateful return for such mild treatment, and become a resource against scanty crops, the effect of which is usually most felt the second Tear. Again, it has been said, that all the supplies we could obtain in case of a failure of our own crop, would be a mere drop in the bucket. If this were true, it is jolt the. result of our suicidal Corn-laws, and an unanswerable argument for open ports, under which there would always be a store ready to supply our wants in a time of , need. On thi s p o i nt a very important consideration is apt to be overlooked. It is not the absolute price of bread here of which our manufacturers so justly complain, but its relative price, as compared with that paid by their rival on the Continent. Suppose a free impor tation to reduce o ur p r i ce a thi r d, f rom ninepenco to sixpence; this of itself would be a great relief to our wor kmen, but f ar from the whole ga i n t o t h em ; f or t h e inevitable consequence would be, if not just a proportional, at any rate a considerable, rise of the price abroad. This is just what is wanted by our operatives--a fair field and no favour. However free importation might be, the expense attending the conveyance nt, sr t the shape must oe ever e f r r freight, t , a s ln a so an u f r a nc eagency, article so bulky in sufficient protection to the home gr ow e r , when combined with the unavoidable rise that must tak e pl ace a t th e foreign ports. But the most startling and odious effect of the withering impost is, its tendency to impair the bounties o f charity and benevolence, whether voluntary or the result of assessment. These virtues, however estimable, are necessarily restrained within certain bounds, but are farther limited by the Corn laws Suppose an individual voluntarily disp ose d, or a society compelled by assessment, to give a cert a i n quantity of bread to the workhouse, the paupers o f a soup k itc h en , or the family of a band-loom weaver struggling for ex istence; it is evident that by this tax, not only is th e p ower o f bestowing diminished, but the dole to these suffering people curtailed. This view of the matter might be useful to the Oastlers, and other sticklers for the poor, as well as the inconsiderate opposers of the Poor-law Amendment Bill. I am, Sir, yours, &c., G. M. Edinburgh, Oct. 3, 1838 MONEY AND CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIM ES.—The aspect of the money-market wears a pecu liar appearance, the demand for it continuing in the transac tions of the Stock-Exchange, while in discounts the rate is low. This arises probably from confining the advances which are usually made at this period by the Bank of England to bills of exchange, which leaves the floating Government securities to find their own level, and applies the relief in aid of commer cial transactions. 'These advances are understood in the pre sent quarter to be much larger than common, and to amount to about 1,200,0001. The Bank confine them, it seems, to prin cipals only, and do not make any advances on bills deposited by the discount brokers. Considering the pressure at the Stock- Exchange, the value of Government securities is extremely well sustained. The purchases on account of the saving-banks have it seems, been suspended, no great balance existing of deposits over monies drawn out. Money continues s ca rc e o n the St o ck-Exchange to-day, and has commanded the high rate of five per cent. on Exchequer Bills. One explanation which has been current to-day is, that much of the fib cling capital has been absorbed in the va rious American stocks and schemes lately introduced into this country. The Funds were quiet, and Consols lefft off at 94 toi for Money, and 94h- buyers for Account. Bank Stock, 2073-to 2081 ; India Stock, 261 to 262 ; Exchequer Bills, 695. to 71s. prem. Foreign securities were heavy, with little variation in prices. Spanish Active with the May Coupons were 1q- to • Por tuguese Fi ve p er Cents, 331- to 341 ; the Th ree p er &lats., 211 to 22,4 ; Brazilian 79i to 80 4 1 ; Mexican 23 to v ; Co lombian 244 to ; Dutch Twc-and•a- Half per Cents 53:4 to 54fr ; the Five per Cents 1004 to ; Danish 74i- to 751. The Share Market remains with scarcely an alteration. Great Western were 14 to 15 ; London and Birmingham 82 to 84 ; S.mthampton (New) 21 to 22 ; North Midleo,d 2 to 3 ; Manchester and BirminA,rham ato a premium ; South ampton (Old) 4 to 3 ; Brighton 24 to 2; Blackwall fi- to dii.count ; Galvanized iron ft to premium. Accounts from Bilboa mention that Espartero had ordered a duty to be levied of 1 dollar per quintal upon all salt and dried fish exported into the interior from that place by land. The municipality had remonstrated, and declared that so heavy an impost could be the ruin of the trade, hut that they were o filing to conscnt to a duty of half a dollar. By a vessel arrived at Cork, accounta from Monte Video of the 25th of July have been received this m • They state morning. Is no' that the deputation sent to treat with Rivera h , id reached Duregno, whence they informed him of the nature and obiect of their nals,,ion, and were awaiting his reply. During the errly part of the preceding, week much alerm was caused by the appearance of a part of Rivera's force about a league from Monte Video. The gates were shut and no communication allowed with the country, but the alarm had gone off and mat ters bad returned to their usual st,ite. Paysander was still in the possession of the Government. Lavalleja, who was in command there, was defended on the river by a gunboat or two lately sent by Rosas, the President. of Buenos Ayres. It was not thought likely that Rivera could under these circum stances capture Paysander, but with that exception, and a small circle round Monte Video, he was in possession of the whole territory of the republic, which was governed in his name, he having displaced all the Government authorities and put in his own, The blockade of Buenos Ayres continued, and was likely to prove a long and tedious affair, unless the President, on finding the French determined to persevere, should give way. The general expectation was, that he would hold out to the last extremity. The French admiral had just returned from Rio, whither he had been solely on an excursion. The ex change on London at Monte Video was 43} to 44 ; and at Buenos Ayres si. The Six per Cent. Stock was at 49 to 50. CHRONICLE.—Shares on the whole are rather firmer, and most of the railway undertakings have advanced a little. The London Corn Market continues firm at the recent ad. vances in price, but the quality of the grain is generally very inferi o r in kind. Of su p er i or o ld wheat there is exceedingly little remaining in the country, either of home grown or foreign corn ; not more, it is generally understood, than suffi cient for the seed for the wheat crop of the ensuing year. The quantity of wheat required for the seed of each year is usually taken at ten per cent. upon the foregoing crop, or about 1,500,000 quarters for that purpose, to be taken from the quantity produced in the present year —or, more pro perly, from the old stocks of superior corn. This, it is reasoned, will leave the quantitiy of good bread corn very deficient, although the wheat of the present season is so inferior in quality that much old grain wilt be indispensable to the millers for the purpose of making up, in many districts, a good marketable flour. That the Corn Market does not rise in price, and the duty fall in a corresponding degree, is attri buted in this manner to the inferior quality of the home-grown corn, the average quality of the present crop being full 10 per cent. inferior in quality and weight to the crop produced in the general average of years. Thus a corn-merchant, In taking off a quantity of wheat of the growth of the present season, is obliged to make large allowances in price for the inferior weight of the grain, as the loss by keeping for a number of months will be untmially large. This, by ordinary observers, is not taken generally into the account in estimating the propects of the country with regard to the prices of corn for the ensuing year, although the true price of wheat is now full 7s. per quarter higher than appears in the quotations, as reckoned for the difference between the qualities of the corn. There is now wheat to be purchased at prices so various as from 50s. to 74s- per quarter, and the true value of sound old English wheat is not less than the latter sum ; and in this manner, from the inferior quality of the greater part of the new wheat offered for sale, the prices nominally are at least 7s. a quarter lower than the true rate. Lest it should deceive parties that that the price of corn has fallen since the opening of the ports, and that the operation of the Corn-laws is not such as we have formerly represented, in having prevented our receiving sup plies from abroad, we give the above reasons, as stated at s tdrt than of the w s Mark-l ane, in proof that the price for sound marketable corn has not decli ne d s i nce t h e opening of the ports, and that the nominal fall i n t h e quotat i ons is no proof that the price of bread, of a p roper and wholesome quality, will not be as high b " le hi r g e hee ystein have sboyfrewqhuiech foreign ntlyshown c to orn be is th p e re in v e e v n i t t e a ci from being freely sold, and, therefore, from being grown abroad. PO ST rally —The S toc k Markets remain, as they have, gene s Peaking, done the whole of the present week, free from fluctuation. II a ITchee F mb r a e r n k ch ed so lßailwayarge an S h a a rmeos,u nt of property, Bri s h h av c e ap b i e t c a o l i m st e s a s:id drug in the market, and it is to be apprehended that a heavy loss will be eventually sustained by them upon these unpromising investments. We have already stated that the decline which has taken place in the Paris market is attributed chiefly to the injurious interference of the Government with the proposed scale of charge of the respective Companies, and the former are unfortunately not disposed, owing to the defeat of their own plans in reference to the undertakings in question, to remedy the mischief of which .they have been the authors. The Chambers will, however, surely interpose. It is highly probable that they will otherwise not be proceeded with, as the calls on the shares will• never be paid up In the face of a steady and hopeless depreciation. The price here of the Paris, Rouen, and Havre is 2:1 dis. on 41. paid. The letters received this morning from Liverpool give but a gloomy account of the Cotton Market at that place. It ap pears that the transactions in the article have been less consi. derable during the present week than at any previous period of the year. We are told also that the partial decline in price before advised has at length become general, and that there is very little prospect of a speedy change for the better. This last remark has reference, we presume, more particularly to the season of the year, the orders for supplies of manufactured goods for shipment having by this time been no doubt very generally executed, so that there will be little doing until the early spring, with the exception of what may be required for the home trade. There would seem, therefore, to be good reason to believe that the report from Liverpool is well founded, and that there is, in reality, no prospect of any pre sent improvement in the value of the raw material. HE R A LD.—For some time past there have been several rumours in circulation of considerable dissatisfaction being ex pressed on the part of the insurers in the Norwich Life Insur ance Office, respecting the management of that institution, which gave rise, about a month since, to some severe but use ful comments in the Bankers' Circular, and to much more severe remarks in the Norwich Mercury, and in the latter Journal evidently founded upon facts that have not been yet controverted. It is, however, satisfactory to state, and we do so to remove all alarm, that, notwithstanding the gross mis management which appears to have crept into that establish ment, the referees have pronounced it to be perfectly solvent. It is, however, well known that the principles of life insurance are perfectly a mystery to the multitude, but it is not so well known that the existing common law affords but little, if any, protection to an insurer's assignee against a litigiously disposed body of Insurance Directors and Proprietors ; and it frequently happens that the parties for whose benefit the insurance has been ef fected, contingent upon the demise of an insurer, may be in circumstances that totally disable them from making any re sistance to the refusal of a powerful life-insurance body who may reject their claims. It is, however, evident that the gene ral body of life insurers require more protection at common law in matters of dispute with the offices wherein they insure than they can now command. The present temporary Act of the last Session goes only to protect the Joint- Stock Compa nies against their co-partners and debtors. But it must be re membered that life insurers are all, and always, creditors of the establishment whose policy they hold, with no other remedy in the ease of dispute but by a tedious and expensive suit in the Court of Chancery. The remedy has been temporarily granted to the Joint-Stock Banks, and, doubtless, will be renewed next Session , whe n i t is t o be hoped that the like legal protection will be afforded to every class, who from th e i r incomes pay annual deposits to these institutions, with a vi ew to secure a provision for their posterity or nominees. We may probably erfe tlrecurtoey stable, notwithstanding thisquestion, i bu s t ta a n t d t i h ng e same the time we have every reason to believe that the Norwich Lif e e i s r ohavereferredprationof h ; t our at description objecton 1 only is,of quackery to aid th e I errorsnpublicsu r Insurance-office whichc.. ° e ffi n ce aw reformation which is but too manifest in the prospectuses of the majority of insurance-offices. It appears that during the past ten or twelve days there have been some fresh bills issued by the Bank of the United States, which will fall due in October, 1839, and bearing interest at the rate of five per cent. per annum ; but the amount was rather limited, when the customary large transactions of that esta blishment are considered, and we have some reason to believe that the new issues were chiefly confined to those parties who had formerly shown a desire to take up this kind of floating security, and it is even stated parties are eager to take new issues of this description, even at the rate of four per cent. per annum. It is also understood that the Bank of the United States has retired old notes to the amount of full 600,0001. beyond those which their agent has taken up upon the issue of new notes. However, it is not at all improbable that this money market will be gradually fedwiththat description of securities, the great object of which, on the of Mr. • part is to g iv e • his establishment the full commandof European capital. This • question, however, is creating much interest •in our monetary circles , and, it as involves some important points, we shall refer to it again. Business i n the British Funds has been very slack to-day, yet there have been no alterations of any moment in the quotations. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 6.—The sales in cotton were very light to-day, only 2,000 bags having met with purchasers ; the transactions were chiefly confined to American descriptions, at bid to 7d. Prices unchanged. The day before yesterday the police arrested a watchmaker named Jena, and his wife, living in the rue St. Honore, on a charge of receiving stolen goods. Some idea may be formed of the number of the customers of the house, when we state that Jena had for a length of time employed a workman at the rate of four francs a-day, whose sole business was to efface the numbers of the watches purchased by this receiver. The police agents remained in the house for the whole of the day, an d arrested several individua l s w h o came to sell stolen g oo d s. Property to a considerable amount i n gold, silver, and j ewels was also seized on the prem i ses , — Galignani of S a t ur d ay. On Saturday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, Frederick Cox, aged fourteen years, in the employ of Messrs. Dennis and Price, of No. 5, Islington-place, Isling ton-green, builders, while at work at a villa at Holloway, near to the Cock Inn, fell off a scaffold about 20 feet high on to a heap of brick rubbish. He was raised up in a dreadfully in jured state, and wa s o bli ged to be conveyed immediately to St. Barthlomew's Hospital. He was found to have sustained a severe fracture of the left leg, and also some internal injury of a dangerous nature. Between eight and nine o'clock on Saturday morn ing, William Bushnell, aged 18 years, one of the ostlers at Thomas's Hyd e -p ar k Hotel, Oxford-street, was dressing ,e a valuable and very high-spirited horse in the stable, when tn whimnitnal hinged out w i t h hi s hind feet, ono of wh i c h struc k with tremendo us f orce on the right knee, and b ro k e h is l eg , lie was carried to St. George's Hospital. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE a t LIVERPOOL, DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY EVENING, OCT, 6.—Lest night, a fire, involving a serious destruction of property, occurred in Robert-street North, leading from Great Howard -street to the Prince's Dock. The fire broke out in one of a range of six warehouses, filled with bonded and free stores, on the south side of the street, belonging, we believe, to Messrs. Henry Davies and Co., King-street ; they have been erected within the last few years, and are of great height—seven or eight stories. About nine o'clock, as a car-driver was pass ing he observed smoke issuing from the windows and doors of the third stcry of the warehouse nearest but one in the direction of Great Howard street. He immediately gave the alarm ; but the infl immeble nature of the goods contained in the room from whence the fire proceeded, caused it to spread rapidly. This warehouse contained a large quantity of cotton belonging to Messrs. William and James Brown, Messrs. Molyneux, Witterby, and Co., and Messrs. Wilds, Pickersgill, and Co., besides 2,200 bales of wool. About eleven o'clock, the flames no longer confining themselves to their original location, burst forth with terrific fury, and proceeded at a rapid rate up the doors to the cat-head, when all the upper stories were in a general blaze. The wind at this time was brisk, and materially assisted the progress of the flames. Arrived at the top, the flames soon extended themselves to the next warehouse, beginning with the cat-head and extend ing downwards. The second warehouse was unfortunately filled with a stock of merchandise even mere valuable than the first, the great bulk rf it bring composed of East India produce, consisting of indigo, shumac, pepper, gums, sago, and saltpetre. At this period, the first warehouse having been abandoned to its fate, the exertions of all present were directed towards saving as much as possible of the valuable goods in the second warehouse. In the meantime the fire exhausted its fury on he warehouse where it commenced, which was completely gutted, and in a short time the front fell into the street with a terrific crash, but owing to the timely precaution given, no accident, ne believe, resulted from it. About five o'clock this morning a considerable quantity of goods had been taken from that warehouse, and removed into Hill-street North. The goods in the cellars and two lower stories of the building could not, it was found, be extracted with safety. A great quantity of saltpetre was known to be deposited in the cellars, and as the fire continued to burn downwards, an explosion was momentarily expected. This disaster was unfortunately too soon realised. About half past eight o'clock this morning the fire penetrated to the cellars, containing, in addition to saltpetre, a considerable quantity of rosin and other combustible matter. The effect of the explosion was awful—it was experienced not merely in the vicin;ty of the fire, but at distances far removed from the scene. It was like the shock of an earthquake, and the crash was heard as far as Everton. The adjoining ship-bread bakery, a building three stories high, which had not received the slightest injury from the fire, was crumbled into ruins; a eheelwright's yard, adjoining the bakery, which contained a small dwelling house, shared the same fate ; the windows of nearly every house in the neighbouring streets were smashed to atoms ; fragments of the burning cotton wero blown across the river and picked up on the Cheshire shore. The ships in the Waterloo Dock were placed in great danger. The jibs boom of the Jacob Pennel caught fire, and the rigging of the Constitution was also in flames. Alive, however, to the dan ger, the hatchways of the various vessels were instantly put down, and every necessary precaution adopted to prevent further mischief. No. 3 pilot-boat received considerable injury from the large quantities of the burning materials filling on her deck. A poor woman passing through the Clarence Dock at the time, had her clothes set on fire, and was seriously burnt. A huge beam was carried from the warehouse into an entry in Dennison-street, and a large piece of iron, weighing not less than 281b5., passed over the Vanchester and Bolton Tavern, and fell on the open space in front of Gibraltar-street. Mr. Pass, butcher, of Dennison -street, had unfortunately at this time ventured into an adjacent court, in the hope of being able to rescue some pigs which lie kept there, when two or three hales of burning cotton fell upon him, and before his body could he removed he was burnt almost to a cinder. An other man we have heard was taken up apparently suffocated and was taken to the Northern Hospital, but was soon restored. A policemen was also taken to the hospital severely bruised. The saltpetre appealed to have been chiefly kept in the cellars, and the force of the explosions was so great that the founda tions of many of the houses in Robert-street and Dennison street were driven in. There was scarcely a house in Hill stre et, Robert -street, and Dennison -street, but was covered with cotton in some places a foot thick and in a burning state, and even the windows of some houses in Chisenhall-street, a considerable distance from the scene of devastation, were broken. The houses in Hill -street and Robert-street were occupied by respectable tenants ; those in Dennison-street were chiefly lodging -houses for sailors. 'I hey present a most distracted appearance, the windows and window- frames be ing almost wholly destroyed, and tits inhabitants having nearly all vacated them with their furniture. It is impos sible, of course, in the bustle and confusion consequent upon such an alarming disaster, to collect any very full parti culars of the matter ; but, we believe, the above and those which we subjoin will in the main be found to be corroborated, is not vet known how the fire originated. The damage, is supposed, will amount to from 150,0001. to 200,0001. v The property, we believe, is nearly all insured. The principal sufferers hill, we understand, be the Sun, Liverpool, and Manchester offices. At the time of the explosion an immense mass of persons bad congregated in the various streets leading to the fire from which a view could be obtained. A great crowd had collected at the top of Robert-street and Hill-street North, and while engaged in viewing the scene, they were knocked down en masse by the explosion. In Robert -street North, opposite the burning warehouses, is a large yard, with extensive sheds ; in this yard were upwards of 2,000 bales of cotton belonging to Messrs. William and J. Brown and Co. The effect of the explosion told fearfully upon this immense pile of cotton, for it was instantly in flames, and the united exertions of the firemen were unable to save it from destruction. Not a ♦estige of it, we believe, remains. Another sited, containing heavy piles of cotton, on the north of Hill -street, belonging to the same respectable firm, took Ire, we regret to say, in consequence of the heat communi cated by the fire from the Robert-street shed. An immense number of persons were employed in pouring water on the roof of this shed, and at the time we left the ground there was every prospect of this property being saved from further injury. A number of distressing accidents took place. A butcher, who lived in Dennison -street, was killed while in the act of removing his pigs to a place of safety ; a fireman, James Wilson, received such severe wounds that he was carried to the Northern Hospital, where slender hopes of his recovery are entertained. An immense number of minor accidents took place. In short, s. more fearful scene than the vi cinity of the fire presented after the explosion can hardly be imagined. A second explosion took place about ten o'clock, but it 'N R neither so terrific nor accompanied with such destructive re. sults as the first. We regret being again compelled to advert to the total ab sence of water in the tanks. After the appearance of the flames, a considei able time elapsed before any water could he procured, and the first obtained was brought from the canal, an hour at least after the fire broke out. Mr. Whitty's exertions during the night were conspicuous, and elicited the admiration of all present. He performed several very daring acts; among others, carrying the hose into the fourth story of the second warehouse, while the flames were bursting over his head, apparently ready to devour him. The exertions of Mr. Maxwell, agent of the Fire-offices, were also exceedingly creditable, and though drenched to the skin he never relaxed them. N. D. Bold, Esq., of the Sun Fire-office ; Mr. Anderson, of the Norwich Union; and Mr. Whitehouse, junior, of the West of England, were severally on the ground, and assisted by their advice and exertions. The third warehouse of the pile in Robert-street North is at present on fire; but hopes are entertained that it will be subdued. It contains a great quantity of combustible matter —tallow, rosin, saltpetre, &c. REGISTRATION-SATURDAY. MIDDLESEX. Mr. SIIADWELL sat this morning, pursuant to adjournment, to conclude the revision of his portion of the county lists re maining undisposed of. The other business having been disposed of, The Learned Gentleman delivered judgment as to the 28 claims of the shareholders in the New River Company. H e first expressed his regret that he had not heard the case more fully gone into. He had consequently made diligent search in the books, in the hope of finding some case that might have been decided in the Superior Courts as to whether or not shares in the New River were to be considered as real or personal estate, but he could not find any decision upon the point at issue, whether or not they gave a right to vote in the election of a knight of the shire, for that was the real question here, whether or not the possessor of a share in the New River was entitled to vote. The Learned Barrister then went into the history of the formation of this Company. He had with him an opinion which his learned colleague, who had looked roost fully into the case, had written, and, as he fully concurred with his learned friend, he would read that opinion. Mr. Shadwell then read the opinion, and said that, in accordance with the judgment of Mr. Coventry, he should expunge all the names. These claimants had been objected to by the Clerkenwelr overseers, but their names still remain on the list in the Enfield district, so that they will all be entitled to vote. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have given instructions to Mr. Mann, the superintenden• of the parks, to erect several seats under the trees on Constitution_ hill, and in the Green Park, for the accommodation of the public. It would be a great convenience were some more erected in the malls. Between ten and eleven o'clock on Saturday morn ing, as a respectable mechanic, named Johnson, who resides at No. 22, Queen-street, Walworth-road, was crossing oppo site to the Elephant and Castle Icr,, accompanied by his son, aged seven years, the child suddenly left his father's side, and, in running forward, went directly in front of one of the omni buses that had just started at a quick pace. The horses were within one step of the boy when the father caught him as he was falling from a blow he received from one of the horses. The progress of the vehicle was so rapid that the fore-wheel passed over the toes of the child's right foot, completely pinching off the great toe and crus hi ng t h e h ones o f t h e smaller oot , s in a shocking 'bawler. The inju r i es , th ou gh serious andextremely painful, are not con,i,le:•ed to be dangerous. 1 . he sufferer was carr i e d i n his father ' s arms to at. Thomas's Hospital, where he at present remains. (TO BE CONTINUED.) MURDER.—On Sunday the body of a middle aged man, named Willams, commonly called Pontypool Will, was found in a plantation near the Royal Oak, Llanelly, Breconshire. A wound, apparently inflicted with a knife, appeared on the abdomen, and there were wounds and bruises or, other parts of the person, the lattter as if the deceased had been violently kicked. About 4s. in money was found in the jacket-pocket, but it is supposed that he had a larger sum in his possession when he was deprived of life. Suspicion having fallen upon a waggoner, named Samuel Powell, who was seen in company vi ith the deceased on the preceding n , ght, when they were drinking► together, he was taken into custody, and a verdict of " wilfnl murder" having been returned against him at the inquest, held by,T. Davies, Esq., he has been committed to Brecon gaol to take his trial.--Shrewsbury Chronicle. CHARLES TENNANT, ESQ, OF ST. ROLLOX.- The loss of Mr. Tennant will be widely and deeply felt. He was an earnest and indefatigable promoter of economical and educational improvement; an uncompromising friend of civil and religious liberty. His own inborn energy of character and clear intellect placed him among the foremost of that class, which, by wedding science to manufactures, has at once ex tended their field of action, and elevated them to the rank of a liberal profession. With ail the deep sustained power of a comprehensive mind, to which we can sci.reely apply a feebler name than genius, Mr. Tennant was in his disposition sigularly mild and retiring. A constitutional nervousness—remarkable in one of large and healthy frame—was allied with that sensi tiveness to the beautiful which is usually its concomitant. We have more than once listened with delight when he, whom most men thought engrossed it, scientific and commercial specula tion, began to expatiate on his youthful reminiscences of Burns. In every resi.ect—as a domestic man and citizen—a more pure and upright soul we have not known than his whom society, and still more his family, have lost. This blow does not fall alone. The loss of the accomplished energy of Dunlop hasbeen too so on f o ll owe d b y t h at o f t h e qu i et, s h rew d power of Tennant. Oserzld, too—iefl.xible and of chivalrous into noty—has atemdoned publi c lif e . W e l oo k roun d us i n va i n f or ~, grey hairs of GritlEmi, in whom the pure enthusiasm of the borne warm 'Gc tiK" very And Wh ere are they of the next generation who re are ' tO their places ? Glasgow Argus. I THE WEATIIEI ADD THTi` THE PRIVILEGES OF THE COURT OF ALDERMEN AND THE COURT OF COM MON COUNCIL. After the Clerk of the Court of Common Council had read the account of the proceedings of that Court at the bar of the Court of Aldermen, on Saturday, Alderman FAREBROTHER rose to call the attention of his brethren to the conduct pursued by the Members of the other Court in discussing and carrying questions which exclusively referred to the privileges of the Aldermen. S.r P. LAURIE—I protest against any interference with the Court of Common Council.- We have a right to defend their privileges, and they have long possessed and practised the privilege of questioning the powers of this Court. From such discussions no harm is likely to arise. The subject here dropped; but it will be resulted iri the Court of Common Council, no doubt, on the next Court.day. Alderman COPELAND had a question of considerable impor tance to a great many of the Members of the Corporation. It related to the dinner on the 9th of November.—( Laughter. ) It appeared that the Court of Common Ceuncil had come to the resolution that no hustings should be erected for the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, and their distinguished guests; on that day in the Guildhall. He was much astonished at the fact that such a resolution was carried, and he wished to ask the Lord Mayor elect and the Sheriffs whether they intended to order or pay for a dinner under such circumstances ? The Lonn MAYOR had nothing to do with the question. It was the practice of the Court of Common Council to order the laying out of the hall on that day. Sheriff Woon said that the hustings had been originally erected for the purpose of preventing the confusion which arose when the whole of the company were upon a complete level. He was most desirous of giving as general accommo dation as possible, but crowding and confusion on such a day would be quite intolerable. Alderman COPELAND.—If it were my mayoralty it would be with mc—" No hustings, no dinner."—( A laugh.) The subject was ultimately referred to a Committee, ap pointed to confer with the Common Council Committee, and the Court adjourned. We have copied in another column an interesting document from The Sun Newspaper of Sept 21. We have tested the date by the latitude and longitude (the Great Western having been spoken about this time), and there is no doubt of the authenticity of the facts. Mr. Wilson has evinced great taste and feeling, in giving birth to such a com position under the circumstances. The ideas are in perfect consonance with the occasion, and are very prettily expressed. We are happy to hear that his wish has been so promptly re. sponded to by a fellow-citizen, who has been at the pains and expense of publishing this elegant nzorceau, .set to an original and sweet melody, with an accompaniment for i..e pianoforte. We understand that it will be ready for publicatiCn in the course i of the ensu i ng week, and the title page will be einbel ished with a finely lithographed drawing of the Great Wes tern in full sail.—Bristol Mirror. STEAM BOILER EXPLOSION.--..0n Tuesday night last, about eleven o'clock, one of the boilers of the wa ter engine in Mr. Pemberton's colliery, at Bilston, exploded with ten ific violence. The engine had not been workillg for some days, and it is said that the engineer bad put on extra steam power to make up for the delay, in consequence of which one of the boilers, not being capable of sustaining the pres sure, gave way, and was forced upwards against the stack, from whence the dome rebounded several yards, making an in dention two yards long,_ and a foot deep, where it struck the corner of the s t ac k. The bottom was torn off into four pieces, and blown different ways, one piece being carried to a distance of nearly one hundred yards. The steam-pipes were blown into the air, and fell on the engine -house, forcing in the roof. The engineer, who was standing close to the fire-place, was knocked down by the bricks, and the steam-box unfortunately falling upon his leg, fractured it in a severe manner, and it is feared amputation must follow; but, although the fire and scalding water were scattered in every direction, he miracu lously escaped with a slight scald on the shoulder. It must be regarded as a providential circumstance, that, 21though the stack as well as the engine -house, are much shattered, the engineer's house, which adjoins it, was not injured.—Man ca/ester Guardian. GREENWICEI RAILWAY.--There is every pros pect, as we are informed, of the line being opened by the end of the present month. Scarcely anything now remains to be done except the iron-work of the bridge over the Ravens bourne Creek, and this is now in active progress. The per manent way between Deptford High-street and the Green wich terminus is in a very forward state. This portion of the line is laid on longitudinal wooden sleepers, with three feet bearing. The receipts from passengers continue good ; the increase on the last nine months is nearly I,2ool.—Rail way Times. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, OCT. s.—The ac— counts from some parts of the West Indies, representing the difficulty of inducing the negroes to work and the damage done to the canes for want of attention, has thrown the sugar market into a feverish state; and, between the real or feigned alarm of the merchants and the speculation of the buyers, an advance of 2s. to 35. has taken place. We have the best grounds for asserting that these statements are overcharged : all admit that the foundation for them is but partial; and we boldly cau tion those who are inclined to act upon their fears only, and who may be misled by an assumed armiety and firmness on the part of the sellers, to be more than usually circumspect. We have before referred to the lateness of the season; the stocks in first hands in the various ports exceed, by 7,000 or 8,000 hhds, that which was on band last year ; the export of colonial produce must fall off; andtthe import from the Mau ritius and Demerara particularly will be early and large. It must be borne in mind, moreover, that all this alleged insub ordination and refusal to work could not have reference to a later date than immediately upon the Act for the general emancipation of the slaves, when it was perfectly natural that they should appropriate a portion of time for as general a re joicing ; nor do we believe that this affair, which has been made so much of to serve a purpose, will eventually ha found to amount to anything more, with the exception of a few cases, on estates where their former masters may have been more cruel and oppressive than ordinary. We shall see. If we are wrong, it is only because we place too much re liance upon the justice and humanity of the planters. --P Bristol Mercury. GRAND I-Last Wednesday, at Rochdale, th e re_ou was a strong muster of the local Tories, • Festival, and devotes calls this gathering a " grand Conservative of the assem bled a large portion of its paper to the report a Mr. Sowler, the Mancheste r „ U d bled simpletons' sayings. One of the oratoarsraanawho prefer let fall, however, some words which those u a Tory to a Whig Administration It is whispered (said this gentleman ) wtoh a l t d a p do w coalitionell tois about to these two parties coalesce, but to take place between the Radicals and the Conservatives. that the Radicals a is apparent, and insinuations, I have to say, that our not till then. But it is said that th re e nowevidence y o f t i o touniu n i te approach wit h us. In reply to these r o a f nd fac i i h io : t cease to do that, t hat every y our adversaries have called us. What I duty is to preserveheonu w in e st h it a u v t e ion h s ee u e i m iim e p t a h ir e ed rj , e a t n e d he w d h i e n n str w u e . sound Conservative desires, is, that the have redress of all practical well-ascertained desire,me ts people shoe grievances, and let the Radicals,—all of wh om , i t i s i n f erre d from the speeches delivered on Kersal Moor, are prepared to join us—let them give us what assist,ce they can contribute for the obtainment of such redress ; but let them not imagine,... let them not la:, the flattering unction to their souls, that we shall permit them to go% ern us as they have governed the Whigs."—Tory tyranny, it, seems, is the promised effect of a Tory Cabinet. By th i s morn i ng ' s poet th ;:ye been received reports relative to the harvest from every part or the kingdom. tie weather during the last week, with scarcely an rxceptiok:,li a s been fa.. _ vourable, and on the whole the accounts are more,stitisfactorMM than was anticipated, but wheat we believe will be .kdn4 to below an average. A ver y f ew extracts on l y will safric' show the tenor of all the reports. The harvest in this neighbourhood is rapidly proceeding. In Cleveland the season is backward, but the crops are promising; near the Tontine Inn but little is cut, and much very green, and scarcely any got in. At Stokesley the cutting gets on slowly, and but little ready to be stacked, although the farmers watch it anxiously. At Guisbro' and Redcar the crops are forwarder than in the other districts in Cleveland, and they will yield a full average : the beans in this district are as green as a tog field, and generally not well corned. In the Northd.. lerton, and Darlington neighbourhood the crops are backward ; the cutting has partially begun, and a few fields led. If the weather should prove fine for another fortnight, nearly all the white corn south of the Tees would be secured in good condi tion.—Sunderland Herald. We have had a week of very fine harvest weather, of which the agriculturists have not failed to take advantage ; and, con sequently, a great deal of corn has been cut down and housed. ----Kendal Mercury. We have been favoured during the last week with the finest harvest weather possible. The farmers are proceeding very rapidly with housing their crops in the finest condition; the peculiar dryness of the atmosphere, and the absence of heavy dews causing the grain to be ready for housing very soon after it is cut. All accounts of the state of the crops concur in describing those of oats and barley as being very good, and that of wheat as rather deficient.--Lancaster Guardian. For the last week the weather has been delightful. It has not only permitted a great deal of corn that was ready for the sickle to be cut down, but has tended to ripen much that was previously in a backward state. In this county the harvest we should think about half-finished; and in'Fifeshire, we are in formed, probably about three-fourths of the corn are in sheaf. With regard to East Lothian, we refer to our usual agricultu ral report in another column. We hear good accounts from various quarters of the state of the potatoe crop ; and the fears which were formerly entertained on this subject seem in a great measure to have vanished. We may add, that the mornings are usually frosty, and consequently cold.—Scotsmen. The west her during the past week has been everything the farmer could wish for prosecuting the important labours of the field. On Friday and Saturday last the sun shone with un clouded splendour, and the heat was so intense that the ther mometer, in the shade, rose to 70 degrees, being a degree of heat rarely experienced during the last summer. On Tues day the morning was lowering, but ultimately cleared up ; and the weather since then has been cold and chilly, though highly favourable for winnowing such of the crops as have yielded to the sickle. In our immediate neighbourhood, and, indeed, for miles in every direction (except in expos e d situa tions, which are inv ar i a bl y late), the crops hare all been con. veyed to the barn-yard in excellent condition. Upon the upland districts the harvest is progressing favourably, and we hope soon to bo able to announce that the " kirns" hare all been son in this district—Kelso Chronicle. y , flsl • ) !4 , 6PEL L.- ' • its relative lie weather , Las been fit- 11 .~